Prepare v1.18.0 for release

Changes.md

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 # Changes
 
+* 1.18.0 2017-11-27
+  - Fix an infinite loop when using a number as a substitution (PR #206)
+  - Optimize substitution algorithm (including person substitutions) to be
+    more performant when you have a large set of substitutions defined (PR #208)
+  - Add support for defining a global concatenation option when constructing
+    the RiveScript object. This will set the default concat mode when
+    parsing files that didn't define their own local mode (PR #209)
+  - Add API function `lastTriggers(username)` to retrieve the full set of
+    triggers that were last matched for that user. For example, if some triggers
+    redirected to others, all the triggers that were touched will be
+    returned by this function (PR #217)
+  - Remove dependency on jQuery for loading files in a web environment and
+    instead use a standard `XMLHttpRequest` (PR #251)
+
 * 1.17.2 2017-01-19
   - Fix `<call>` tags not working inside of the `@Redirect` command and the
     inline redirect `{@}` tag. Note that only *synchronous* object macros that

package.json

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 {
   "name": "rivescript",
-  "version": "1.17.2",
+  "version": "1.18.0",
   "description": "RiveScript is a scripting language for chatterbots, making it easy to write trigger/response pairs for building up a bot's intelligence.",
   "keywords": [
     "bot",

src/rivescript.coffee

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 ##
 
 # Constants
-VERSION  = "1.17.2"
+VERSION  = "1.18.0"
 
 # Helper modules
 Parser  = require "./parser"